version.el   [plain text]

;;; version.el --- record version number of Emacs.

;;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1992, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: internal

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Code:

(defconst emacs-version "20.7" "\
Version numbers of this version of Emacs.")

(defconst emacs-major-version
  (progn (string-match "^[0-9]+" emacs-version)
	 (string-to-int (match-string 0 emacs-version)))
  "Major version number of this version of Emacs.
This variable first existed in version 19.23.")

(defconst emacs-minor-version
  (progn (string-match "^[0-9]+\\.\\([0-9]+\\)" emacs-version)
	 (string-to-int (match-string 1 emacs-version)))
  "Minor version number of this version of Emacs.
This variable first existed in version 19.23.")

(defconst emacs-build-time (current-time) "\
Time at which Emacs was dumped out.")

(defconst emacs-build-system (system-name))

(defun emacs-version  (&optional here) "\
Return string describing the version of Emacs that is running.
If optional argument HERE is non-nil, insert string at point.
Don't use this function in programs to choose actions according
to the system configuration; look at `system-configuration' instead."
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((version-string 
         (format (if (not (interactive-p))
		     "GNU Emacs %s (%s%s)\n of %s on %s"
		   "GNU Emacs %s (%s%s) of %s on %s")
                 emacs-version
		 system-configuration
		 (cond ((featurep 'motif) ", Motif")
		       ((featurep 'x-toolkit) ", X toolkit")
		       (t ""))
		 (format-time-string "%a %b %e %Y" emacs-build-time)
                 emacs-build-system)))
    (if here 
        (insert version-string)
      (if (interactive-p)
          (message "%s" version-string)
        version-string))))

;;; We hope that this alias is easier for people to find.
(defalias 'version 'emacs-version)

;;; We put version info into the executable in the form that UNIX what(1) uses.
(or (memq system-type '(vax-vms windows-nt ms-dos))
    (purecopy (concat "\n@(#)" (emacs-version) "\n")))

;;Local variables:
;;version-control: never
;;End:

;;; version.el ends here